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Pakistan vs England, in pictures

Friday, 16 Jun, 2017

Morgan said not having partnerships let England down. But he indicated the nature of the pitch made it more like a sub-continental surface than a British one.

England endured a shock elimination in the group stage of the 2015 Cricket World Cup and, looking ahead to the 2019 edition in England, Morgan said the experience of this Champions Trophy wouldn't change the attacking stance of his team.

But legendary Pakistan fast bowler Waqar Younis said blaming the pitch was a "lame excuse and former England captain Hussain agreed". The hosts started solidly to reach 118-2 in their first 25 overs and then lost eight wickets for 93 runs in the next 25.

2010 The last time an England player faced more balls in an innings without hitting a boundary before the 64 balls by Ben Stokes in this game. But Morgan promised lessons would be learnt for two years' time. Finishing third or fourth, I think that's about right where we sit in world cricket at the moment [they are ranked fourth].

Mortaza added: "Obviously we have been disappointed, especially in India T20 World Cup we couldn't go through". It is a big frustration because we have played some good cricket in this tournament, and we weren't anywhere close to it here.

"One thing which we did not do well today was to adapt to conditions, coming from Edgbaston. Going into a big game like this, we're going to treat it as how we treated the last game and our mindset does not differ", said Kohli at the pre-match press conference here on Wednesday. From 33/4 we could win against the Kiwis.

However, England coach, Trevor Bayliss echoed Morgan's sentiment that the direction of travel remained positive. They just did not expect it to come against Pakistan or for it to cost them a place in the final.

As good as the Asian nation were, England were woeful with the bat as they chucked their wickets away, with eight catches and two run outs seeing them fall to an unremarkable 211.

8 Three-wicket hauls by Hasan in 20 ODIs, including three in his last three games - 3 for 24 against South Africa, 3 for 43 against Sri Lanka and 3 for 35 in this match. There are cricketers who are skilled, who are committed to play for Bangladesh with a lot of passion and they are really keen to win a lot of games at this level.

"If they want it to be completely neutral ground and have no home advantage, bringing in all the teams in the tournament, I would keep it the same way".